Maresyev Quotes & Sayings

Anya, the minor goddess of Anarchy? A woman who had more balls than most men - because she'd cut them off the guys stupid enough to get in her way and kept them as souvenirs. — Gena Showalter

With the engine stalled, we would notice the deep silence reigning in the park around us, in the summer villa before us, in the world everywhere. We would listen enchanted to the whirring of an insect beginning vernal flight before the onset of spring, and we would know what a wondrous thing it was to be alive in a park on a spring day in Istanbul. — Orhan Pamuk

Reincarnation is not something that occurs at death; it is something that takes place at every moment. Death and rebirth are occurring every second. — Frederick Lenz

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room. — Robert A. Heinlein

Our sports [softball] is a game of failure already so my dad always says to parents who he is a pitching coach and he's been my pitching coach since I was 11 years old is if they can be the best kid on the team, let them experience that and then obviously the challenge has to come later on but you don't get that opportunity very often and confidence is such a huge part of this game and in life in general. — Jennie Finch

There was a young lady named Mae
Who smoked without stopping all day;
As pack followed pack,
Her lungs first turned black,
And eventually rotted away. — Edward Gorey

As humans, after all, we become that which we seek. Dairy farming makes men steady and reliable and temperate; deer hunting makes men quiet and fast and sensitive; lobster fishing makes men suspicious and wily and ruthless. — Elizabeth Gilbert

MAYBE EVERYBODY'S END isn't the day they actually die, but the last time anyone speaks of them. — Ali Benjamin

If you wish to succeed, you must believe in yourself and look at everything positively — Sid Mittra

You love something that ain't there and then you start hating what is there, and that's hell. — William Mastrosimone

It is good to pay attention to our dreams. For a period of a few weeks, write them down each morning. You don't have to do anything else. Just write them down. They have their own magic and will bleed into your waking life. While — Natalie Goldberg

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise. — Alison Lurie

The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them. — Joyce Carol Oates